FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Audre Lorde, Racialization, Visual Impairment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Shoshana Magnet

Document Summary

1987: women earned 67 cents for every dollar that a man earned. 1998: women earned 77 cents per every dollar that a man earned. 2011: women earned 74 cents per every dollar that a man earned. Must focus on several factors that apply to it such as race, ethnicity, religion. Racialization: where people are assigned into certain groups among society based on the colour of a skin this is not biological, it is something that has been created by society as a way to categorize ppl. Recent immigrant women make 62 cents per every dollar made by a women born in canada. 4-5 women in canadian women talked about sexual violence in a relationship. 95% of them reported sexual violence as sexual assault such as inappropriate touching, annoying them until they allow their partner to have sex with them even though they do not want to. If you are drunk/high you cannot give consent for sex.